Powell Valley Electric Cooperative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540345615
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New Tazewell, TN, USA
- Phone
- 4236260703
- Rating confidence
- Limited
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $82,117,471
- Expenses
- $81,228,212
- Assets
- $124,692,493
- Liabilities
- $33,410,250
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BILL SURBER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
- TRACEY SHARP (BOARD VICE PRESIDENT)
- ROGER A BALL (BOARD PRESIDENT (RETIRED))
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL COPPOCK (GENERAL MANAGER): $243,657 total reported compensation
- CHARLES S GOODIN (ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER): $186,096 total reported compensation
- TRAVIS TOLLIVER (DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS): $179,809 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Distribution of tva-generated power.
What it reported doing in 2024
Electric cooperative in conjunction with rus programs, distribution of tva generated power.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 60
- Accountability: 72
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.1%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.54; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $244K · 17 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $955K reported
- Consistency: 12 of 12 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 6 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 38/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.